VMware has just announced the release of their VMware Converter 3.0 tool.  You can use VMware Converter to convert your physical machines to virtual machines. VMware Converter will quickly convert Microsoft Windows based physical machines and third party image formats to VMware virtual machines. It also converts virtual machines between VMware platforms.

VMware is making two editions of this tool available, the Starter Edition and the Enterprise Edition.

VMware Converter Starter is a free download available to everyone. It is an easy to use product for single conversions. VMware Converter Enterprise is available at no additional cost to existing and new VirtualCenter Management Server customers and P2V Assistant customers, with valid support and subscription contracts.

Find out more information about these products, here.

You can also download the free Starter Edition, here.